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I have diced fresh pumpkin and baked it till soft then add to the mash. It makes a great ale. Bruce

I play alot of softball. My favorite league is an unlimited arc league. I also have a handmade soap business that I have alot of fun with and sell beer soaps made with my homebrew. Bruce

I have never been much of a fan of this brewery. The beer is not of the quality of other microbrews. Years ago I thought I was tasting the same hops in 5 of thier 7 beers. The 7 that came with the sampler anyway. Bruce

I recived a tour of a micro brewery some time ago. Thier system is a 7 barrel system and he was brewing 1 batch each of the 5 work days of the week. They only had 3 conicals that I saw and I asked him what he did with his beer since 3 days is not enough time in a fermenter. He told me 3 days...

I posted my worst a few pages back but a friend of mine brewed a spruce tip beer of some kind and he said it tasted like he used his lawn mower bag for a fermenter. Bruce

I got 7 years out of my first one before I broke it. I have about 1 year on it's replacement. +1=145. Bruce

I make a potato pale ale often and it turns out just excellent. Very very good. Last batch was 1 pound of russets to one gallon of beer. I made a root beer beer once as a request of my daughter, it did not turn out very good. Could not get it sweet enough. She tried some with a scoop of ice...

And welcome from another MI brewer. Bruce

Welcome. And I thought Holland was the dutch capital for MI. I grew up in Holland and now live in GR, just a few miles north of you. Have you checked out Siciliano's for your supplies? They are top notch. Bruce

Has anyone ever used one of these? I purchased one of these and am not happy with it at all. I bought a mini keg of beer to use it on and so I could reuse the empty. The first one the 16g CO2 would leak out within 5 minutes. I returned it to the store and they gave me another one with some...

My worst beer was about 4 years ago. My daughter asked me to make a root beer flavored beer. So I used a bottle of root beer extract, used to make 4 gallons of root beer. I knew getting it sweet enough would be hard since the yeast would want to eat the sugars. I used lots of carmelized...

I brewed 5 gal. of a raspberry cream ale and bottled 10 gal of a potatoe pale ale. Bruce

In Michigan those New Castle mini kegs are not to hard to find. I just finished one about 2 weeks ago. Bruce

My first thought was wow that is so little sugar. But once I did the math I see that it is not. For 5 gal. I use 3/4 cup of sugar. AT the rate of 1.5 Tablespoon per mini keg X4 to equal 5 gal. that comes out to 3/8 cup which is 50% and I had read go 60% so that is very close. Well I did them...

I searched Amazon and they only had one. It was not rated very well by others who had read it so can anyone help me find a good book? Thanks, Bruce

I really like the Optimator by Spaten. On the 6 pack carton it says they have been around since 1397. WOW. Bruce

Hello, I have read recently that if you want to put your brew into mini kegs that you should use only 60% of the priming sugar you normally use. Is this right? Also some of my mini kegs will be used as gravity dispensed and some will have CO2 used on them. Will both of these get the same...

Hello, My name is Bruce. I have been a AG brewer for about 6 years. My first batch ever was a Red ale from a boxed kit and I went to AG for my 2nd batch. I learned a few lessons the hard way but have brewed many great beers. I have also added many different things to my beer, some with...